Death is a topic that we often shy away from, and its realities are hidden in our cultural context. Yet the Buddha taught that contemplating death is a practice of liberation – one that vastly enhances the quality of our life. By looking directly at death, we access our appreciation and joy for this human life and its transformative potential. Join us in the foothills of the White Mountains for…

Registration is open until May 30th. Please don’t delay! Death is a topic that we often shy away from, and its realities are hidden in our cultural context. Yet the Buddha taught that contemplating death is a practice of liberation – one that vastly enhances the quality of our life. By looking directly at death, we access our appreciation and joy for this human life and its…

Registration is open until May 25th. Please don’t delay! Enjoy a silent weekend of practice or just come for one full day/night. Open practice weekends at Wonderwell are opportunities for beginning and experienced meditators to deepen their practice, participate in group meditation sessions, explore the natural beauty of the seasons of Wonderwell, and to connect with…

Eliminate what is no longer serving you in your life and replace that with nourishing practices to fuel your body, revitalize your mind and re-connect you with spirit in this gentle seasonal detoxifying day.Yoga & meditation instructor Janine Bibeau and plant based chef & nutritionist Stacey Hamblett invite you to join them at the beautiful farmhouse at Emery Farm in Durham, NH for this…

Attendance dates for the Summer Meditation Intensive have changed – we are now asking participants to register and attend a week at a time, in full. Each separate week is a retreat within the Month-Long Meditative Container. If you would like to attend more than one consecutive week, please register for both weeks and you can experience a continuous retreat. Week 1 July 1-6: Resilience…

Experience the magic of New England in the early Fall with a unique intermediate-level retreat combining meditation and yoga in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.Awakening is a non-conceptual realization of the mind’s nature. Yet we might spend many years pursuing awakening in ways that are conceptual. When we strive after the mind’s nature with a conceptual approach, our practice becomes…

A Retreat for Clinician Resilience How do we maintain our resilience in a medical world that demands so much time, energy, compassion, and understanding of seriously ill and dying patients? This retreat is for clinicians and volunteers who need to rest, reconnect with the core of our caring, and return to this important work with a personal plan for sustainable strength and compassion. Contact…

The ecological crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity as ever faced. What do Buddhist teachings offer that can help us understand and respond appropriately? And what does the eco-crisis imply about how we understand and practice Buddhism? How do we honor our grief at what is happening? How do we combine personal transformation with social transformation? What does the ecosattva…

Freshening up our Relationship: A Couples Retreat We often subscribe to the myth that the right relationship will fix everything; that meeting the right person will solve most of our problems. Soon we start to take our relationships for granted and assume that they will maintain themselves. We discover that intimate relationships are not self-renewing. Like gardens, they need to be watered,…

Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness (e.g., mindfulness, concentration), the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, causes, and release of human suffering. This residential retreat will introduce the meditation guidelines of Insight Dialogue and offer an opportunity to explore…

Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness (e.g., mindfulness, concentration), the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, causes, and release of human suffering. This residential retreat will introduce the meditation guidelines of Insight Dialogue and offer an opportunity to explore…

Gesture of Awareness is a meditative approach to presence. What is at stake in this practice is not what we are doing or how we are doing anything but simply being. This can be explored in simple movements or gesture, in taking a step, in the contact with another person or in the awareness of the way our mental representations condition the way we live. Awakened to the nonjudgmental immediacy of…

From the Buddha to the Dzogchen yogis of Tibet, ancient masters have long relied on the power of the natural world to nurture peace and awaken insight. Following their example, we too can develop and deepen a “practice of the wild” by learning to commune with and receive teachings from the natural world. Join Lopon Liz Monson and Lama Willa Miller as we explore the power of trees, streams,…

What is it like to be truly comfortable in one’s own skin? How does it look and feel? Through yin-yang yoga and other movement practices, meditation and social silence we will explore what this means – to completely and wholeheartedly own all parts of ourselves in an embodied way. For this is the doorway to model it and appreciate others in the same way. Yin yoga is a deep, quiet and passive…

This workshop retreat covers the core skills from the 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion program developed by Chris Germer and Kristin Neff. Self-compassion: What is It? Self-compassion is the emotional attitude of bringing kindness to ourselves when things go wrong in our lives. Most of us easily treat our friends and loved ones with warmth, tenderness and patience when they struggle, fall short or…

In this weekend program, Lama John Makransky and Lopon Liz Monson will explore how practicing compassion and receiving blessings work in tandem to help us access our deepest nature of loving-kindness and wisdom. By deepening our receptivity to love and compassion, we discover that compassion and wisdom are intrinsically part of who we are. And as we learn to extend these qualities to others, we…

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We believe human beings are innately wise, strong and kind. This wisdom, although not always experienced, is always present. Going on retreat is a beautiful way to reconnect to our basic sanity and health. Our aspiration at Retreat Guru is to inspire people to experience authentic retreats and reconnect with their innate wisdom, strength and kindness.